{"id":63725,"date":"2022-05-05T15:39:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T15:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63725"},"modified":"2022-05-05T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T15:39:19","slug":"growing-up-in-a-family-with-multiple-ethnicities-was-both-lonely-and-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63725","title":{"rendered":"Growing Up in a Family With Multiple Ethnicities Was Both Lonely and Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parents.com\/parenting\/dynamics\/growing-up-in-a-family-with-multiple-ethnicities-was-both-lonely-and-beautiful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Growing Up in a Family With Multiple Ethnicities Was Both Lonely and Beautiful<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parents.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parents<\/a><br \/>\n2022-04-19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miekogavia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mieko Gavia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parents.com\/parenting\/dynamics\/growing-up-in-a-family-with-multiple-ethnicities-was-both-lonely-and-beautiful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 80%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/imagesvc.meredithcorp.io\/v3\/mm\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.onecms.io%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F38%2F2022%2F04%2F19%2FGettyImages-1192319798-2000.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>I always felt like an outsider, but being mixed is filled with beauty and complexity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Growing up I always felt like an outsider. My name, my skin, my hair all tells the story of where my parents and my parent&#8217;s parents come from. It all marks me as a bit different. I&#8217;m mixed Okinawan, Black, and Mexican, and there aren&#8217;t a lot of people out there like me. I consider myself lucky to have grown up in a household with mixed parents and siblings because my parents made sure to teach us about our heritage, and about cultures all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>This gave me respect for all sorts of different types of people, and instilled pride in my identity. I am also grateful that they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parents.com\/parents-latina-magazine\/how-to-help-multiracial-kids-establish-their-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">encouraged curiosity<\/a> about the world, and created an atmosphere where we all &#8220;got&#8221; each other&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parents.com\/parenting\/dynamics\/growing-up-in-a-family-with-multiple-ethnicities-was-both-lonely-and-beautiful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always felt like an outsider, but being mixed is filled with beauty and complexity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,414,8],"tags":[33453,31033],"class_list":["post-63725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-family","category-media-archive","tag-mieko-gavia","tag-parents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63726,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63725\/revisions\/63726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}